Locadio's Apprentice Summary

Locadio's Apprentice is a gentle, appealing historical novel which is also a straightforward and easily accessible example of what is known as a bildungsrotnan, meaning a novel of education or personal development. The book relates how the dedicated apprentice Enecus is gradually transformed from an idealistic youngster into a seasoned but humane physician. This transformation is effected in part by the gruff and demanding Locadio, Enecus's teacher, and in part by the terror...

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Biographies (1)

From Paris in the eighteenth century to Saxony in the tenth, and from ancient Rome to even more ancient Greece, spanning centuries and continents, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's character, the Comte de Saint-...
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